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On 10 April, NAMMCO hosted the 7th Annual Marine Mammal Student Symposium in Tromsø, bringing together students and early-career researchers from marine biology and the law of the sea.  This [...]

At NAMMCO’s 32nd Annual Council Meeting, held from 25 to 27 March at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, the focus was on marine mammal welfare and on the various projects led by NAMMCO. Member [...]

Marine mammals are hunted for food and other resources across various regions of the world, from west to east and north to south, in very different environmental and cultural contexts. A shared [...]

NAMMCO will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting in Tromsø, Norway, from 25th  to 27th  March 2025. The meeting will include sessions of the Council and Management Committees.  We are excited to announce [...]

The V International Orca Symposium 2025 was an exciting year for those of us who love orcas (“orca-holics”, if you will!), as from 16-21 February 2025 orca scientists from around the world [...]

The NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on Abundance Estimates (AEWG) held a hybrid meeting on 21 January 2025 at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, chaired by Daniel Pike (Canada). The [...]

A recent study by Baumgartner and colleagues, titled “Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation”, was published in Heredity in January 2025. This [...]

The 31st meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee was held in Tromsø, Norway, from 21 to 24 January 2025, chaired by Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid (Greenland). The meeting brought together scientific [...]

The focus of this volume is “Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Mammals.” If your research explores human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic—whether it involves [...]

A recent review by Kuletz and colleagues, titled “A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine vertebrates in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems”, was published in [...]